Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-09-02
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THE Ei4sIi.AcisS CAUGHT.
The Runaway Preacher and the
Editors Wife from Southern
Minnesota: Caught; After an Ex-.
citing Race.

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NEW Ioak, Aug. 27.--On ms. raetions
i'll Il cable message from Europe Inspect
or Byrnes' detectives met the steamship
Adriatic today upon her arrival and ar:
rested,a man and woman charged with
adnltry and larceny. The prisoners arc
Rev. David Seymour, of the NJ. T.
church, at Janesvile. Waseca county,
Mimi, and Mrs. Fannie Henry, wife OF
the editor of-the GAINESVILLE Argus. The
couple elopcd on Aug. /. Seymour took
Slh0 i'll church funds and with the woman
came to :his city. They were pursued
by Henry and his brother in-law. The
clipping couple sailed for Europe and
doubled OH their trail by coming back to
New York. Henry had crossed the. At
lantic also. Finding the trail doubled
he '';,hled back to inspector Bvrnes, who
arrested the clippers this morning In
the police CONT both were held 10 await
the arrival OF l!enry by the next steam-
or. The erring couple were four days in
l-1vcrpoo! before they learned that the
i1.tc husband was close upon their heels.
Thc> at once took the first steamer back
for thu country. The husband upon
hearin" his at once tclegraphed to In
spector By lues and the authorities at
Minnesota asking that the pair be inter
rcp'ed. The minister was charged with
auultry aud larrcn:. The detective who
matte the arrest found the runaways in
the steerape He held Oil to the dom;-
mic, hut let Mrs. Henry 90 her way.
Seymour returned by the Adria,ic of
the White Star line, under the name of
Francis Cover'lu'c. When approached
by the detective he denied that he was
the man the detective wanted Seymour
left y wife anr| five small children. and
Mrs. Henry deserted her husband and
two children.
4 BAD RECORD.
David Seymour, to use the prisoners
right name. is IS years old. When he
took up the charge at GAINESVILLE he was
already under the suspicion of his new
parishioners, as ugly rumors concerning
his character from places where he had
held previous ministries had reached
the tnwn before him. He had been ac-
FUSED ct dvbauchinga li-year-old girl in
one place, and in another, it was said, he
had narrowly escaped lynching on ac-
count Of & similar ofIense. The girl
spoken of was given into his bands to be
taught the dead languages, Of which
Seymour is said to be :, master.
John \. Henry, whose wife Seymour
went to Europe with, is the editor of
the Janrsviile Argus, tire leading paper
III the county of Waseca. When Sey-
,nour came to GAINESVILLE, Mr.. Henry was
the first to say anything i'll his fayor and
to lead the naturally displeascd church
people tc the stand of supporting the
ne" minister, who was sent there under
such objectionable circumstances. An
other statement against Seymour at the
time Of his arrival in the town was that
the funds oi three churches of which he
had cha1gc were sadly deficient ut
the time that Mr.. Seymour felt it neces-
sary for him to leave his charges respect
lively. Henry had to combat those re-
ports as well. "a !.ss:r.
Mrs. Henry, who is about rs years old,
was not held, because the police had re-
ceived no word that anybody WAS inter
csted IN her. :a,s,3.